About Me

A San Francisco native recently returned home after more than twenty years in Paris.

I'm a bilingual creative lead, writer, and editor with a background spanning storytelling, editorial strategy, educational content, multimedia, and digital product development. I spent nearly two decades at Gymglish (now Aimigo), helping shape the voice and personality of multilingual learning experiences used around the world.

My work sits at the intersection of writing, humor, education, technology, and communication. I've created characters and narrative worlds, led writers and contributors, developed editorial series, collaborated with product and engineering teams, directed multimedia productions, and done quite a bit of voice acting along the way.

I'm now based in San Francisco and exploring opportunities across content, communications, education, and technology.

Outside of work, my interests include cooking, music, podcasts, comedy, basketball, culture, languages, travel, and dogs.

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Chief Editor of Creative Content
Gymglish

Apr 2004 - Feb 2023

Primary author and editor of creative content for original language lessons at Gymglish .

Writing & Editing:

Universe building, storytelling and character development for narrative elements of the courses Gymglish, Frantastique, Hotel Borbollòn, Wunderbla, Saga Baldoria.
Lead author of the Rich Morning Show, cartoon English lessons for kids and beginners.
Lead author of the Word of the Month, a humorous monthly look at the news in the headlines in English in partnership with LeMonde.fr.
Lead author of The Word of the Month print edition book in collaboration with CALEC.
Creation of original written content and copy editing for Gymglish.com, DelavigneCorp.com, AIGF.org, thewordofthemonth.com, vatefaireconjuguer.com, and partner pages at LeMonde.fr, Liberation.fr, LeParisien.fr etc.
Pedagogical mapping and creation of questions, corrections, explanations and lessons for selected Gymglish products.

Voice and multimedia:

Voice acting and direction for audio scenes and animation for all Gymglish courses.
Podcast and radio segments: Un Jour, Une Question (FranceInfo), Story Time with Andrew & The Word of the Month Out Loud (Instagram)
Storyboards, ideation and scripts for teasers and communication projects.

Communications, Marketing and Social Media:

Creation of original marketing content designed for social media.
Edited and contributed to Gymglish social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Created and copy edited content for social media and communications.
Created unique, offbeat content for internal communications and onboarding of new team members.
Created slogans for social network campaigns, goodies and promotions.

Management:

Managed small team of authors and writers in the content team at Gymglish.
Managed creative team in charge of producing narrative content, images, videos and marketing needs.
Edited and validated tone and copy for marketing and communications internally and externally.
Contributed farfetched ideas at board meetings.

English Teacher
Academy, Private

Oct 2002 - Oct 2003

- Taught English to groups of Korean students ranging from 6-15 years old.
- Built lesson plans, coursework and led discussion groups for students learning English as an additional language.
- Taught conversational English to adults and children in private tutoring sessions

Education

Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, University of Redlands

BA, English

(1998 - 2002)

Urban School of San Francisco

(1994 - 1998)

Licenses & Certifications

Master Class - Writing for television

Skills

Oct 2002 - Oct 2003

Social Media • Proofreading • Translation • Editing • Creative Writing • Blogging • Copy Editing • Language Teaching • Voice Acting

Honors & Awards

Nov 2022

Publication of the Word of the Month book

Lead author of the Word of the Month book, published in association with CALEC, 2022.